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Keep Your Eye on the Ball

This is the advice often given in sports games in which flinging or kicking or hitting a ball is a crucial element. It embodies an important lesson that applies in many areas of life: focus on the key issue, the important subject whose progress is the main object of interest and do not get distracted by side issues and sometimes even dramatic developments that can catch the attention of many other players in the game but are not important in the long run.

Shelach Lecho: Can We Afford to Trust Ourselves?
By HaRav Pinchas Chaim Scheinberg, shlita

When the time came to enter Eretz Yisroel (Bamidbar 13:1,2) "Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, `Send for yourself men, and let them spy out Eretz Canaan . . .'" Hashem said "for yourself," since the people came to Moshe asking that spies be sent to scout out the Land.

In Search of a Uniform
by Rabbi Moshe Young

Some people never change their way of life. They fall into a routine, repeated day-in and day-out. Like an old leather shoe: No matter how you try to straighten it out, it always falls back again into its creases.

Optimal Nourishment
by Yochonon Dovid

The intercity bus forges ahead, its engine humming, swallowing up the kilometers beneath its speeding wheels. Almost all of the seats are occupied. It is interesting to see what people do with their time during this journey.


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